The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-12
THE NEW SOUTH.
WHAT JUDGE KELLEY SAYS OF ITS
WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT.

a Look at Nashville and Chattanooga.
Railroads and Mineral RegiOns-COtton
Raising and Its Drawbacks-An Inci-
dent at Anniston-Towns.
Judge Kelley has come back from his
southern trip, full of its wonderful deVel-
opment He says the new south is entirely
different from the south Of twenty years
ago. Said he:
Certain parts of the south are going
ahead faster to day than in any parts Of
the north. The country about Birming-
ham and Admission is on the boom, and
their appearance is that Of the fast grow
ing western frontier town rather than the
Old villages of the south. Nashville Is q
MAGNIFICENT city Chattanooga has, l
think, the largest tanuery in the world,
and is doing great deal Of manufactur-
ing II ships its lumber in every direction,
ana it has all the enterprise of q northern
CITY About Chattanooga the farmers are
making a great deal in the raising OF fru1t,
and it is 81 curious thing that on one side
of Mission ridge there are vast strawberry
beds which run up the SIDE of the noun
tain, and over the hill are great fields of
cranes These Strawberries are Skipped
all over the country by the car load and
by train loads They are eaten in Cincin
natl. Cleveland and Chicago, and, coming
as thew do early in the season, they bring
high prices. cue b4llo do al N-Neb4-I PIC 90
toS4r6Y the south IS investigating its re-
sources The land viii raise something
else than corn and cotton, and the people
are beginning to find it out. -"
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY
GLOW about railroad building?'
Several thousand miles Of railroad
were built in the south during the past
year. and everywhere the railroad goes
the country develops In the neWiy oe.
veloped part of the south the CONDITION OF
the lower class is rapidly improving The
laborers of Chattanooga, Birmingham, An
niston and the fast developing mineral
regions of the south live in good houses,
and they make fair wages L estimate
that one bachelor Iaborer is of more GOOD
to the storekeepers of the southern COM
munity than four families who are en-
gagged in the work of raising cotIon: l
assert this without fear of contradiction,
and am able to maintain it. The south
has been divided up into small farms and
those farms are almost universally de-
voted to cotton raising. Each farmer 3
DrOduct amounts to about one or TWO
bales a year, seldom more than Two anu
often not more than one. lie sens Un inc 30
bales for about $40 apiece, ana these @4O
constitute his annual income and support
Long lines of these poor farmers come 10
market with their yearly load or cotton;
Sometimes thew have two steers atlache'
to a cart, sometimes Il mule ana q sIeeI.
and at other times horse. Inc heau VI
the family drives the cart, PACK OF MN 10
the bale Of cotton, and behi1u III INC
WAGON or cart sit the women OF the
family. -
II saw hundreds Of such scenes and L
fo11nd that the women Of the family al
WAYS come along. This was IN oruer
that they might lay in their yearly sup p
plies of clothes and provisions rms $4O
represented the entire money outlay io1
the year. and their entire purcL IasILIS
power for household conveniences. HenGe
,hey came along to advise their husot'l"'
and fathers as to the use Of the money
A BITTER COLD NIGHT.
Como rie,bt. that I spent at Admission was
bitter cold. A large number o. these Sinai II
nIantars and their families had come III u
I'll their cotton, but they had arrived TOO
iate fC,, the dealers to buy. They were 100
MOE to GO to q hotel, and they had to steep
in their wagons or huddle around nte
which they kindled out doors 10 Keep tlioIli
selves warm. Some Of these farmers rttEeA
+u,an+v thirty and forty miles TO market
The roads are not good, as there IS n LIE
ntercornn1ilnication among them LUG
cotton trim is the big trip OF the year, anu
d0ubt not is talked of for weeks DeIoi0
it is undertaken The large landowners,
who. in some cases, ren< out s1nah l' -I IlI
TO these planters, graduate IileIi a.+e,,+
and the expenses Of raising Dy 1LlG 80
of the crop. and. as a rule, it makes hoC
much difference whether the crop amounts
to 1--we bales or three. The poor farmer 5t
gets enough to live upon, anc this Is aooo,I
one bale. Now. a laborer at s day Will
make $500 year if he works steadily OF,
even III a slipshod way, he is sure 10 In an.
$3.50. This, as a rule, he SPENDS, anu .nho
amount is three times that OF the average
small farmer
How about the new towns in the
south?''
ssThey are growing up along the differ
ent lines of road, and they are showing az
the signs Of modern civilization. Many ..
the new store buildings which are efeotoa
are of brick, and found good churcne esq. anu
schools in many of them. In AnniSt .tJi l
noticed the children going to school, ny
seemed as well dressed as our nortilei u u
little ones, and visited q number OF I Do1n
lite and coIored schools and found them
n ~ well conducted. Frank q. Carpen-
in Cleveland Leader.